“I just can't listen to any more Wagner, you know...I'm starting to get the urge to conquer Poland.”
― Woody Allen

“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”
― Albert Schweitzer

“Because when he sings...even the birds stop to listen.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.”
― Frank Zappa

“You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception

“Without music, life would be a blank to me.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
― Victor Hugo, Hugo's Works: William Shakespeare

“A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness